Car: Girdlestone Road off the Main B4495 The Slade.Bus, the No 15 Bus stops in Girdlestone Road from which it is a short walk to the entrance next to 173 Slade Road. Other Bus services: 31, 31A, 45, Circleline 40.Train: Oxford

Visitor facilities:

There is a path that runs from the Slade Road down through the Reserve.

What to see:

The site contains a range of habitats including spring-fed lowland fen, a variety of ponds, and wet woodland with small representations of lowland calcareous grassland, wood pasture and parkland. Lye Valley has one of the best examples of a calcareous valley fen, a nationally rare habitat. The plant and animal species of the Lye Valley fen are thought to have lived there since they colonised the spring areas after the retreat of the last ice age perhaps 8,000 to 10,000 years ago.